(1) And Rebekah will never again see her favourite son.

(2) He was not her favourite son, but he was something.

(3) Pamela thought for a moment of Roy, her favourite son, and Bernice, his wife - also a career girl.

(4) He is a favourite son.

(5) Esau went hunting and he was my father's favourite son.

(6) Essex's favourite son will open at Lord's to launch the cricket season.

(7) Wolsey played with the gold pendant around his neck and smirked patronisingly at Agrippa as if he was a favourite son.

(8) On the other hand, Dubroca, even before Fouroux's exit, was one of Albert Ferrasse's favourite sons.

(9) Antonio Castro, 42, the physician to Cuba's national baseball team and reputedly Fidel's favourite son, is said to have conducted more than 20 internet chats with "Claudia" since last October.

(10) On his first day home, his father organized a celebration in the village for his favourite son, who had brought honour to the family by going all the way to America.

(11) Yet now, they have a troops out movement incubating in their midst, within spitting distance of the holiday home of the lone star – state's favourite son.

(12) But this year other presidential hopefuls did not spend much time in Iowa because Senator Harkin from Iowa was a favourite son candidate.

(13) In fact this is the basic paradox: he is still, for all of this, the Premier League's bonny boy, its cosseted favourite son. He emerged in the middle of the League's great boom.

(14) In fact this is the basic paradox: he is still, for all of this, the Premier League's bonny boy, its cosseted favourite son.

(15) The film has all the elements of the best psychodramas: an overbearing father, a straight-talking mother, a favourite son/brother, and a cast of sycophants and true believers.